backshot
backshot adjective: having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel. Also the simple past and past participle of backshoot.
Adjective
backshot (not comparable)
- Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.
Verb
backshot (third-person singular simple present backshots, present participle backshotting, simple past and past participle backshotted)
Noun
backshot (plural backshots)
- A shot that sends something backwards, such as a shot that sends the ball behind the player making it.
- "Tommy" Hitchcock, the American ace, most brilliant hitter in the world, halts a ball with a flaying backshot, turning a defense maneuver into a mad offensive drive.1930, Harper's Bazaar - Volume 64, page 94
- A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to an earlier point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
- A shot in the back.
- Who knows but they might come and fire a backshot at us, before we could get home; and then the devil take us, if the chance wouldn't be that some of us would'nt get home at all, at all.1848, James M'Henry, The Wilderness, Or, Braddock's Times: A Tale of the West
- If anybody tries a backshot, they will be blasted into dust.1995, Dirk Fletcher, Texas Tart: The Miner's Moll, →ISBN, page 186
- To physically attack or ambush from the behind of another person.
- A shot taken from behind the subject.
- If so great a commotion had been stirred up by his demand for a simple old camera backshot, there was no telling what kind of fuss would have resulted from his intention to achieve in his show the pace that distinguishes a good old-fashioned revival meeting!1970, Albert Govoni, A Boy Named Cash, page 15
- Backshot of power station fully working.1978, Alan Sillitoe, Three Plays, page 159
- A sexual position in which one partner penetrates the other from behind; doggy style.
- In fact, one incensed male interviewee told me that Tanya needed a "good backshot inna har belly fi keep har quiet" (a good backshot up inside her abdomen to keep her quiet/calm).2001, Donna P. Hope, Inna Di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica, page 51
- And by the way, it also incites some backshot (a Caribbean term for a well-known sex position) and spanking tendencies during sexual activity for some.2013, Kelda, Men Under a Microscope, →ISBN, page 57
- An act of anal sex.
Also used as
backshot is also the simple past and past participle of backshoot.
Forms of backshot
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | backshots |
| present participle | backshotting |
| past participle | backshotted |
| past | backshotted |
| Noun | |
| plural | backshots |
Origin of backshot
From back + shot.
Questions about backshot
- What does backshot mean?
- Backshot means having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.
- What part of speech is backshot?
- Backshot can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
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